Like most publicly-schooled Americans, my education about Japanese internment during World War II consisted of probably a paragraph or two in a history textbook that presented it as an unfortunate outcome of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States’ entry into the war. In my recollection, the textbook mentioned that eventually the United States government apologized, but there was no direct statement that internment was an unjust imprisonment of American citizens, nor was there a first-person account of what internment was like. It […]